Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1887-07-22
PEOPLE WHo EAT DOG MEAT.
A Chicago Family partaks of the F1esi,
of q Pot GAMING.

A Chicago Family Partake of the Flesi,
of a Pct Canine.
CHICAGO, July 21.-An oldish little
German woman wearing a faded dark
calico dress and a shapeless straw bonnet
stepped b1iskly and In q business-like
way into the prisoners dock at the Chi
cago Avenue police court when the name
of Maurice Hammermiller was called.
He vas charged with keeping e vicious
dog.
.My husband is sick, Judge, and /
came in his place" youchsafed the little
woman in German in answer TO the look
of inquiry in the Justices eyes.
Well, my good woman, has he killed
that dog as he was ordered? You see,
the little boy who was bitten is on hand
to prosecute, and I shall certainly assess
q hne if my orders have not been
| obeyed.n
90, yah, de dog is dett for tree or a
gubble days. Ain'd it, officer2'
II guess the dogs dead, your honor, 2
said the officer appealed to. 'She showed
me the hide and feet of a dog, aud said it
was the one that bit this little boy
here
"Did you skin your dog?'' asked the
court in astonishment.
Yah, certain.
What for?h
Because we want de meat"
want the meat? What for2''
t eat, of course. Me. boil de meat,
und den it is ready. Mine husband have
lung-disease, und he say dat dog meat is
good for him. So it is eat
f.II,ara tS nortaiy1,, ~ Jo,,l1 ~ A.
death of that dog, and such being the
case my jurisdiction ends,n half solilo-
quized his Honor rs he thought over the
little; woman's strange statement. SO,
yes, you may go, your husband is dis
charged. Pm satisfied that the dogs
dead" and with q ttTanke, schon', she
left the dock, smiling and happy.
Mrs. HammerEiller was found on the
front steps of her residence surrounded
by her family-a family of at least two
successive generations. She is q little,
weakened old party, with a complexion
like q last years apple. When before
Justice Kersten she claimed to be unable
to speak English, and her evidence was
| given through an interpreter. But she
talked English pretty well to the re-
porter, and when she got e%ntangled in an
English idiom her daughter, q smart
young woman, who was nursing a year
old baby, Clipped in and helped her out.
mn, Hammermiller is sick, isn't hcs''
the reporter asked. Consumption, !
u~nderstand?'i
HI AMID got no consumption NIT
mermiller a little tartly. HE vas sick
NIT a cough, but he's peter a1retty.n
What is 1t you wantsp asked the
| yOunp woman with the hahy
81 was told Mr.. Hammermiller had
saten dogs flesh to cure him OF consump-
ton, and / wanted to know il it cured
him, = said the reporter.
der dog was d goot healthy dog, y
said Mrs. Hammermiller. "und l eaten
him mineselluf.n
aAte himiyourselfa''
sIfried him desc days, und I odder
him days boiled, und he was a goot dog,
und der children some of him eat, und i
eat him, und we all of US him eat. He
was a goot dog
rs dogs flesh healthy?n
aYah. Mine hrudder in Germany he
tell me OF rich peoples what eats dogs.
We often dogs eat III Germany. His fat
| rub it on mine breast. 1t is goot to
! cure sick peoples. Mine man he have "a
cough, und spit. spit, cough, co,lgh-last
hAHtot ~ NdS-uuu ne toUk SOME UNI
und he spit it all up und was peter. It
cures dipteery und bronchitis, or vat you
call it,
Did yon give some of the dog to the
childrens''
Nah. He vas n goot tog. give him
to der children und eat him mineself.n
Come into the house, mother
said the young woman with the baby.
What is all this abouty What is he ask.
ing outhings forsff
Hes police, amt itgi said the old
lady, looking at the reporter with a large
note of interrogation In her face.
The reporter said he was interested in
dogs, and that IL was beautiful weather
for mis- time OF year, and then he came
away
Jimmy Weedsn Dangerously shot.
PlTTsBuRG, July 21.-Jimmy weeden.
the famous middle weight pfizs fighter
was shot and probably fatally injured In
ms saloon by Jack Thompson.
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